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I would guess at an individually owned computer because they don't understand the realities and/or because it's another thing to deal with that they don't really want to.

At an organizational level it's another thing to organize and do procurement and asset management for. Which is basically the same type of dynamic just playing out at a different scale, but here sometimes the paperwork and human hours for the 1000$ computer are larger than 1000$ (and relatedly the paperwork for the UPS could be similar to the computer).

It probably still makes sense in the long run, though maybe not if you go thoroughly in the cattle direction.